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Pavement
03:30
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i tear out my eyes every time you're invited
the colors for whom i've been thinking keep switching and fading
i wish i had time in control when it started
for all the dumb reasons i wanted to stay
don't leave me standing out on the pavement
don't have me fading out with the radio
don't have me pulling out on the rip cord
don't leave me holding on
the seconds pass by as we sit at the table
the books i've been reading keep sending me out on an island
don't worry baby it's not that important
drowning in circles outside of this room
don't leave me standing out on the pavement
don't have me fading out with the radio
don't have me pulling out on the rip cord
don't leave me holding on
don't leave me holding on
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To My Brain
03:26
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hollow as the driftwood at your feet
washed and weathered from the sea
hounded like the willow in the stream
two swift kicks were all i need
lost above the smoke of choices razed
choke upon the dust up in the haze
and i'm starting to relay these thoughts
to my brain
desolate we're falling with the leaves
while the wood and bark remain
pollen on the gentle northern breeze
two rough bits of news today
lost above the smoke of choices razed
choke upon the dust up in the haze
and i'm starting to relay these thoughts
to my brain
signals from your beating muscle strain
light up mountains on the screen
everything but this now slips away
the two of us alone again
lost above the smoke of choices razed
choke upon the dust up in the haze
and i'm starting to relay these thoughts
to my brain
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Why Is It So Hard For Us
03:11
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brother won't you take this guilty feeling
and erase it from my mind
i've been back to where i thought i started on
this terrible decline
why is it so hard for us to love
brother there are two heads on my pillow
and i cannot sleep at night
wake up in my clothes sit at the table
and reflect upon my life
why is it so hard for us to love
wide alive
take it all in stride
then why is it so hard for us to leave
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reading the marks from the words left behind on your window
lost in the thoughts on my mind as i echo your face
i'll turn this one over the world doesn't know who we are
i'm turning backwards it's spinning away with your car
wake with the sun running wild through the rust and the willows
watch for me now i'm sure i'll hang around i'm tied down
i'll turn this one over the world doesn't know who we are
i'm turning backwards it's spinning away with your car
light in our eyes i'm the passenger making their exit
come settle down i've got room for your heart in my arms
i'll turn this one over the world doesn't know who we are
i'm turning backwards it's spinning away with your car
i'll turn this one over the world doesn't know who i am
we're spinning backwards i'm turning away from your
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Frost and Winter Snow
02:26
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lately i've been cold
frost and winter clothes
broken ice and snow
is frozen at my feet as it melts around my toes
how can we stay here
live again this year
wash up in your arms
a silhouette unto as it breaks and falls apart
hollow as the sound beneath us
i'm hollow as the wind
on the wires that form between us
we pause to breath it in
now that winters gone
dried up with the sun
torn and ripped in two
i'm swallowed by the change
and regret for what we lose
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Wide, Alive!
02:38
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wide alive
if only for a moment
left to float
i take on water freely
there to see me
and wrap their arms around us
there to see me
i take just what i want
in the walls
i carve out my inscription
broken down
with satellites above us
and i still can't
settle on our amendments
and i still can't
be what we've agreed
in a place
of reckless and devotion
i love it when
it catches up and frees me
and i've taken
the love from those around us
and i've taken
enough to rescue me
yes i've taken
the love from those around us
and i've taken
enough to rescue me
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May
00:21
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Baskerville
02:24
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shadows chase around the empty barn
like hounds of baskerville out of the dark
and i tied up all my shoes into a knot
so i'll fall for you right from the start
pillows on the floor to line the walls
we're there to start the evening early on
and it takes a little while to fill the room
these old beams are creaking gently beneath our shoes
waking like i never slept at all
hang me up on the mantle on the wall
and these gears are pretty heavy
for the morning i'll be ready
to embrace this subtle fear of moving on
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Jay
03:20
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up from the creek where we spent every winter alone
out in the house left abandoned beside the road
i'm like the face that you see when you're on your own
jay was the one who was waiting he wouldn't go
how could we never have noticed the sign on the street
please leave your shoes at the door it's not mud we need
i'm like the games that you play when you're on your phone
jay was the one who was waiting he wouldn't go
stuck in a room with nobody i'm wanting to see
out with the lights when i needed you here with me
i'm like the thing you forgot that you thought you'd know
jay was the one who was waiting he wouldn't go
but i'm not the face that you see when you're on your own
and jay is the one who's still waiting there all alone
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